China promises to fix copyright protections

Last updated 11:00 21/12/2012

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China has told US trade negotiators in Washington that Beijing would do more to protect intellectual property rights and combat piracy by promoting the use of legal software, China's commerce minister told reporters.

Minister Chen Deming said that while Beijing agreed to address those longstanding US complaints, American officials at Wednesday's US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) meeting promised to address China's demands for greater exports of US high-technology products and to facilitate more Chinese investment in the United States.